Heller 1/48 Mirage IV P

bobblelink · Post by **bobblelink** » May 23rd, 2011, 1:20 pm

Beautiful, I must get round to building my 1/72 one some day.

The French offered it as a TSR2 replacement with British engines- there is a what if!

SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » May 23rd, 2011, 9:56 pm

bobblelink wrote:The French offered it as a TSR2 replacement with British engines- there is a what if!

I am half-way through the Contrail 1/48 TSR.2 and the Airfix is generations ahead of it...would like to have both TSRs, the Mirage IV and a A-5 Viggie (c'mon, Trumpeter, get to it!!...all lined up together as tandem seat 60s strike aircraft...just a shame the Russians didn't do one as well...

kerensasdad · Post by **kerensasdad** » May 24th, 2011, 2:42 pm

Very nice build. I have one in the stash that I really should get around to building.

Migrant · Post by **Migrant** » May 24th, 2011, 5:13 pm

Lovely result, and I found your in-progress reports really useful with some very innovative solutions to the kit's problems.

Mikeew · Post by **Mikeew** » May 24th, 2011, 8:44 pm

Very, very nicely done, superb build.

Pugz636 · Post by **Pugz636** » May 25th, 2011, 11:45 am

i agree with everyone what a great finish, so nice to see the monster that was a mirage IV.

Pugz

Baris CAN · Post by **Baris CAN** » May 25th, 2011, 9:23 pm

Steve, Steve, Steve... !
Top class. Perfect. Congratulations.

Regards,
Baris.

flakmonkey · Post by **flakmonkey** » May 25th, 2011, 10:04 pm

Thanks again for looking and your comments.

SJPONeill wrote:I am half-way through the Contrail 1/48 TSR.2

On the bright side, it's not the Sanger. FWIW, the best TSR-2 still has to be the Dynavector. Getting trickier to find these days but worth looking out for.

SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » May 26th, 2011, 12:21 am

The Sangar and Contrail TSRs are different? I never knew that...just always assumed Sangar is where a bunch of the Contrail molds ended up...

flakmonkey · Post by **flakmonkey** » May 26th, 2011, 3:06 pm

They could well be one and the same, I've only seen the Sanger one and it looked like far too much work for me.

SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » May 27th, 2011, 2:43 am

flakmonkey wrote:They could well be one and the same, I've only seen the Sanger one and it looked like far too much work for me.

Once the parts are cut out and sanded and the injected bits tidied up, the Contrail isn't too hard a build - there are a couple of massive trenches along the upper wing fuselage join to fill and, of course, you have to fake a cockpit (or just spray the canopy semi-opaque gold on the inside)...mine would be done except I had to AMS it...is about 1/2 (all the big bits) done but I am stalled on tarting up the undercarriage...now that I have the Airfix one, the Contrail one might get a crew and be displayed gear up in full burn low level...

Barry · Post by **Barry** » May 27th, 2011, 3:06 am

That's a wicked lookin' airplane and you've done a stunning job with it.

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